Word: nea
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...persons" Orr-Cahall was talking about are mostly on Capitol Hill, and they oversee the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, which partly subsidized the Mapplethorpe show with a $30,000 grant. The NEA was already enmeshed in controversy over an earlier grant of $15,000 to photographer Andres Serrano, among whose works is a picture titled Piss Christ, depicting a crucifix submerged in the artist's urine. Mapplethorpe, who died of AIDS in March, produced equally provocative work: his oeuvre includes pictures of nude children in erotic poses, a man urinating into another's mouth, and other...
...awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Challenge program in the fall of 1985. The grant requires a three-to-one match, i.e. ART is responsible for raising $2.25 million in cash (not pledges) from non-federal sources in order to receive a grant of $750,000 from the NEA. While the maximum award under the challenge program is currently $1 million, which would require the recipient organization to raise $3 million in matching funds for a total principal of $4 million, the maximum award is set by the NEA, based on its evaluation...
This is the second time that ART has been awarded an NEA Challenge grant. The first was for $250,000, also on a three-to-one matching basis, and was used to expand and develop ART's marketing and fundraising efforts and to increase the artisitic scope of the company during the three year period from July 1, 1980, to June 30, 1983. The current grant period began September 1, 1985, and concludes July 31, 1989. NEA Challenge grants cover a period of no less than three years. No organization can receive a Challenge grant during the period covered...
...past nine years a total of roughly $1.5 million in professional company grants and $400,000 through a variety of special programs, for an average of roughly $200,000 per year. Beginning in fiscal year 1986-87, ART is also receiving, through the Ongoing Ensembles program of the NEA, funding which could total $800,000 over five years...
...common. At the same time, in a panicked effort to improve their schools, many states and localities have added new and often burdensome course requirements, typically without input from teachers. "Traditionally, teachers have been treated like very tall children," observes Mary Futrell, president of the National Education Association (NEA), which represents 1.6 million schoolteachers. "We are not perfect," concedes Baltimore elementary school teacher Kathlynn Jacobs. "But people need to walk in our shoes before they criticize...